How to do an El Rollo in bodyboarding

The El Rollo (The Roll, in English) was invented and first performed by Pat Caldwell, a professional bodyboarder who competed at the highest level in the 1980s and 1990s.

Caldwell was born in California, on the 4th May, 1962. At only 12, he got his first Morey Boogie board and started competing in Hawaii. Pat loved to try new things. And in the first couple of years, he began rotating the bodyboard off the top of the lip.

When he hit 16, he finally landed it in a Hawaiian line-up. Initially, Pat Caldwell wanted to name it "the three-dimensional 360" but Jack Lindholm laughed and later asked: "Hey Pat, what do you call that thing, the 'El Rollo'?" The truth is that the young Caldwell liked it, and the name stuck.